[Boost-users] [iostreams] Re: Boost.IOStreams and Custom filters on strings

From: eg (egoots_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-04 12:59:34

Stefan Arentz wrote:
> I've written a really simple aggregate_filter that runs the world
> famous and highly secret ROT13 encryption. This filter works fine when
> I use a file_sink and file_source. But I really just want to run this
> on a bunch of string buffers. Unfortunately it does not work, the
> destination string is always empty. Does anyone understand why?
> 

I'm not sure why your case doesn't work, but...

If you look in libs\iostreams\example directory, you can look at the 
container_sink.cpp example along with the container_device.hpp which 
models an STL-compatible sequence as a sink or source.